Pianist Links Dudamel, Abreu, El Sistema Directly to Chávez

Saturday, August 25, 2018

From Musical America Worldwide, August 24

“Venezuela-born concert pianist Gabriela Montero has written an open letter to Simon Rattle whose published praise of Dudamel prompts her to claim, ‘He willingly befriended the cast of a mafia that now controls a narco-state of starving, fleeing, dying, murdered, tortured, deprived citizen victims’.”